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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers in providing a cure for his boredom.
3) Amelia's boredom survival guide: first aid for rainy days, boring errands, waiting rooms, whatever!
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While waiting for her sister's medical appointment, a bored Amelia creates a handwritten book of fifty suggestions for passing the time.
4) Phooey!
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A boy who claims there is nothing to do spends his day being anything but bored.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
*An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner*
This program is read by the author.
"In this spirited exploration of our relationship with technological devices, Zomorodi's melodic voice beckons and inspires listeners to develop a deeper understanding of how tech devices affect our potential...Zomorodi persuasively conveys her compelling points on the need for reflection to make room for enlightenment in this age of technological
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom.
7) Ray
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Ray has spent his whole life as a light bulb in a lonely closet. But he's about to go on a big adventure!"--
Author
Series
Tian xia cai jing volume 364
Publisher
Tian xia za zhi gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
It's time to move 'doing nothing' to the top of your to-do list. In 2015 Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC's popular podcast and radio show Note to Self, led tens of thousands of listeners through an experiment to help them unplug from their devices, get bored, jump-start their creativity, and change their lives. Bored and Brilliant builds on that experiment to show us how to rethink our gadget use to live better and smarter in this new digital ecosystem....
10) The Odyssey
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ingrid works on a gargantuan cruise ship where she spends her days reorganizing the gift shop shelves and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the aisles. On her days off, she disembarks from the ship, wasting the hours aimlessly following tourists around, drinking the local alcohol, and buying clothes she never intends to wear. It's not a bad life. At least it distracts her from thinking about the other life--the other person--she left behind...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bored after three days of non-stop rain, Priscilla goes outside to perform a rain-stopping dance and meets Posy the Pixie, who shows her the magical land of Primrose and teaches her to appreciate both rain and sunshine.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hell can get you down. It's big, hot, often painful, and a hard place to get creative projects done. But something else is bothering inmate PKRx354--something beyond the unrelenting and often absurd torture routines, the demons, or the tormenting trio of his mother, father, and girlfriend also consigned to the Underworld. Luckily there's help: Fred Greenberg--Hell's only psychotherapist. With Fred's stoic and perceptive guidance, the "talking cure"...
14) Let's do nothing
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Believing they have done all there is to do, two bored boys come up with a strange new activity to keep them occupied and discover an entirely new way to pass the time by doing--nothing.
15) Such a good boy
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Buzz is a very good boy, who lives in a fancy house, eats well, and has equally well-behaved (boring) friends--but sometimes he would really like to break free, run fast, dig holes, and play with the other dogs.
Author
Series
Pizza and Taco volume 6
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's New Books: 2022 Recent Graphic Novels and Comics Additions
Children's New Books: October 2021 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 1st & 2nd Grades
Children's New Books: October 2021 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 1st & 2nd Grades
Description
Pizza and Taco are bored and decide to throw a party, but despite their careful planning, nothing seems to go right.
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